Re: theHoary Live CD Array 4 & Gnpernicus

[Luke Yelavich <linuxaccess themuso com>]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:30:11PM EST, Bill Haneman wrote:
> However, most users who want white-on-black text prefer to use the 
> 'HighContrast Inverse' GNOME theme instead.  If Ubuntu is bundling the 
> latest accessibility patches from Sun, then even most Mozilla content 
> pages will display with white-on-black text using this theme.

I will check the Live CD tomorrow to see whether these themes have been 
included. If not, they should be trivial to add.

As for the latest Sun accessibility patches, where can one go to find 
out about these?

> To select a different GNOME theme, go to the 'foot' menu (not sure what 
> Hoary calls this menu) on the panel (Ctrl-Esc), choose 
> 'Preferences'->'Desktop Preferences'->'Theme'.  (The exact menu 
> structure may depend on your distribution, I don't know if the Ubuntu 
> menus have been modified).  From the 'Theme Preferences' dialog, choose 
> 'High Contrast Inverse'.  If you want larger print and icons, you can 
> choose 'details' from this dialog, select the HighContrastLargePrint 
> 'Controls' theme, 'Bright' or 'Atlanta' window border theme, and the 
> HighContratLargePrintInverse icon set.  You can further adjust your font 
> sizes from the 'Preferences'->'Desktop Preferences'->'Font' dialog.

The menus in Ubuntu have indeed been modified. I will give a run down in 
the morning on what has to be done to change the theme, as I am 
practically shut down for the night.

> >When running the CD as a boot up everything loaded fine - no error 
> >messages etc - but when the accessability was activated the following 
> >was experienced:
> >
> > - screen magnification would only go to 2x and once there could not be 
> >reverted to normal size
> 
> I don't know anything about this, and have not seen this problem before. 
>  Perhaps someone from Ubuntu can help?

I will look into this.

> > - with festival activated the only speech output were clicks and 
> >whistles as the mouse was moved
> 
> Try turning off the 'sounds for events' in Desktop Preferences->Sound.
> It's possible that festival itself isn't set up properly, I am not sure. 
>  See the recent email from Zsolnai Laszlo about running 'test-speech' 
> to help diagnose problems.

These should already be turned off, but will check again.

Luke